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by bruce511 2y ago
>> So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt? Why do Floridians keep rebuilding in the wake of endless hurricanes? Why do folks live in Tornado Alley? Why do Dakotans endure one tragic winter after another? Why did New Orl
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by bruce511 2y ago
Hah - all of those examples use a planet as comparison. The first 16 bits of the address should be reserved to be used by the Planetary Internet Addressing Council (PIAC) Allocating all addresses to Earth seems very shortsighted. (Some sarc
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> We're living through the most anomalously prosperous period This. It's hard to make predictions precisely because the rate of change has been so rapid. What is interesting to note though is the varied societal responses t
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by bruce511 2y ago
My phone is on silent 100% of the time. (With small exceptions when I'm expecting a call.) I might like to be informed of emergencies, but I'm not a first responder. If you are bleeding phone 911, not me. To be fair, my mom sends
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by bruce511 2y ago
Which is to say that the quality of the sales person matters. If your sales department is staffed by people who got hired on Monday, and are on the phone by Friday, then frankly they're not worth much. I've seen the opposite thoug
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by bruce511 2y ago
The problem with 4 hour SLA (I'm assuming in non-business hours?) Is that it's eye-watering expensive to scale. If I have 100 cheap customers I need to scale it for 100. If I have 3 I can get by with putting staff "on call&qu
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by bruce511 2y ago
It's called market segmentation. The classic analogy is airline seats. Ultimately the job of the airline is to get me from A to B. They do just that for First Class and sub-economy. But for more money you can have snacks etc. Airlines
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by bruce511 2y ago
Even if the math of the arc length was correct (and you don't need to be a math professor to figure out it isn't) there's another logic misstep. Implied in the caption is that the speed is the same at all heights (given that
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by bruce511 2y ago
Having done work in hardware and software, I'm somewhat in agreement, but I'll also counterpoint. Building software is a fast development cycle. Find bug, fix bug, compile, release, improve. Things can be done in hours or days. Bu
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by bruce511 2y ago
At the very least one could see from the AI if the tablet is interesting or not. That could triage tablets for human translation.
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by bruce511 2y ago
I worked in a small kiosk in the late 80's. Most cigarettes were the same price, but Camels were quite a bit more expensive (25% or so as I recall.) Our target market was, how shall I put it, price sensitive. The Camels weren't t
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by bruce511 2y ago
To be fair, the goal of school us not to be efficient. And I'd suggest that most attendees aren't all that interested in efficiency either. I certainly spent as little time on schoolwork as possible, and really didn't think m
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by bruce511 2y ago
I concur, and would suggest that the original question is framed incorrectly. As with most things, context matters. Right now, recruiting us not broken when viewed from an employer point of view. There's a glut of programmers on the ma
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by bruce511 2y ago
How do you interpret the most recent results differently? (Feel free to read some sarcasm / blind adherence to democracy into the earlier post, but its hard to interpret the election results in another way.)
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'm very much in the "reduce carbs" camp. Long-term high carb intake leads to many health issues, and reductions lead to improvements. I'm not sure that science is behind on this (there's plenty of literature on the
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by bruce511 2y ago
Is it a median? The site doesn't say (that I can see) but the text seems to suggest an average, not a median. But even if it's a median, the point stands. At least half the country falls below this standard. Equally the distributi
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by bruce511 2y ago
While I appreciate the collection (LGBTQ) I'm not sure it's always helpful to put that all in one box. Within that group there are wildly different lifestyles and social experiences. Being gay for example is largely mainstream in
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by bruce511 2y ago
It is hard to compare one country to another because they are different in so many ways. Each has positives and negatives. Clearly the USA and Bangladesh are different. Comparing their GDP is simplistic and doesn't really speak to qual
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by bruce511 2y ago
Both positions can be true - what you said, and what the parent said. The problem with what you said is that it's a statistic lumping all households together. As such it's largely meaningless because it lumps Elon's household
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by bruce511 2y ago
Oh sure. Colonies on Mars are a complete fantasy right now. They start and end with Mars's lack of a magnetic field. could we create a self-sufficient habitat underwater? Probably. But given that it would lack key abilities (heavy in
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by bruce511 2y ago
All this is true, but none applies to the project under discussion. As an aside, I expect any kind of "backup humanity" goal would almost certainly be easier, more sustainable, and more likely to succeed on land than under water.
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by bruce511 2y ago
You're likely too young to remember the religious language wars, but I expect you'll see some of that here. The prosaic answer is that there are hundreds of languages to choose from. In most cases we choose the one we know because
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by bruce511 2y ago
I don't think this really qualifies as a backup survival option. Power, food, and transport are provided from the surface. So any event that resulted in an extinction of the species would end the habitats, perhaps a month or two later.
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by bruce511 2y ago
Very true, you cannot assign what is not yours. (Ianal, but I assume that means if you did sign a CLA and submit then you are breaking copyright.) But that's not my point. My point is that "not signing a CLA" is only half t
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'm Germany it may default to the author. Different jurisdictions behave differently. In other jurisdictions, and depending on employee contract it may default to your employer. Hence the posted article.
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by bruce511 2y ago
It is an excellent deal for companies. It's also an excellent deal for end users. Open Source is not designed to be "anti company". It's designed to be pro-user. (I'm not sure why you're being down-voted, your
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'm not as sure as you that it would work out that way. Let's take your TV example. I bought my TV from the local store, or Amazon, or perhaps second hand from some random guy on ebay. Naturally I connect the TV to my home wifi, u
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by bruce511 2y ago
You miss the point completely. Let's say you take a photo and paste it on the internet. It is then used (without your permission) in a global ad campaign. Your ability to sue is zero. All the user has to do is show that you don't
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by bruce511 2y ago
The point raised by the article is the reverse. They agree with you that your company does not want to sue. Specifically (in some cases) they explicitly remove your ability to sue violators. Obviously each company and employee situation i
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by bruce511 2y ago
Your rule is a common one, but somewhat misses the point of the argument. In the absence of a CLA who does own the copyright to the work you do? The point of the article us that it may, or may not, be you. I notice that you weren't c

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